THE Cinnabon Recipe
Ingredients
Rolls:
- 2 tbsp yeast (1 1/4 oz package)
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup melted butter (do not substitute margarine-blech!)
Filling:
- 1 cup brown sugar (I just sprinkle as much as I can and like, never measuring)
- 2 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup butter
Icing:
- 7 tbsp butter softened
- 1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- 1/4 c cream cheese (2 oz)
- 1/2 tsp real vanilla extract (or almond extract, which I prefer and use)
- 1/8 tsp salt (I don't always use the salt, and in fact, like the taste better without it)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F
- Dissolve yeast in milk.
- Mix in sugar, butter, salt, eggs, flour. Mix well.
- Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface.
- Knead into a large ball. Cover; let rise for 1 hour.
- Roll dough into a 21" x 16" wide rectangle.
- With the butter softened, I just use my fingers to spread it generously over the dough.
- Load 'er up with the filling (see below).
- Roll from long-side to short-side. Pinch the ends.
- Using very sharp knife (I prefer a serrated one) cut into 1 inch wide rolls, making sixteen.
- Grease (butter) your preferred baking pan (I like mine to be all squished up next to the other)- I generally use an 11"x 15" pan.
- Then place rolls in pan and into oven. Let the rolls rise for 30 minutes.
- Bake until the rolls are slightly browned and not doughy. This will vary according to your oven. Just don't overbake.
- When done, take them out and cover them in the delicious icing.
For Filling:
- While dough is rising, prepare the filling and the icing.
- Clean-up a little and then go read a chapter or two in your book.
- Soften butter, so that it is spreadable.
- After dough has been rolled out to the gigantic rectangle, spread the softened butter all over.
- Sprinkle brown sugar over entire buttered rectangle. Use more, is you like more.
- Now sprinkle the cinnamon over the now sugary, buttery, doughy, rectangle.
Filling:
- Cream it all together with an electric mixer (or by hand if you just want to exhause yourself for some reason).
- Spread on hot rolls.